ARMENIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Sarkis Knyazyan, Svetlana Mkrtchyan, Anahit Aloyan and Rita Parzyan, Concern Dialog
co-authors are considered as joint owners of such work and the royalty is shared equally. 3.4 Copyright Rights According to the Armenian Law on Copyright and Related Rights, an author has the exclu - sive right to use their work, as well as authorise or exclude others from using their work. Such rights include but are not limited to the right of reproduction, distribution, rental, lending, trans - lation, creation of derivative works (arrangement, rearrangement, adaptation and other transfor - mations), communication to the public, pub - lic performance, public display, broadcasting, simultaneous broadcasting or re-broadcasting, transmission of a work by cable or by other means, as well as the use of a work in any other manner that does not contradict with the Arme - nian law. Armenian law recognises moral non-economic rights – ie, the author’s intellectual and personal ties to the work, which includes the right to be recognised as an author of the work (authorship right); the right to use the work by their name, pseudonym or anonymously, and the right to authorise such use; the right of prohibiting of distortion or any modification to the work that may harm the author’s good will and/or reputa - tion; the right to make the work publicly available for the first time, or to assign that right to a third party, etc. Authors’ moral rights are inalienable, non-transferable and are not subject to exhaus - tion with the exception of the right to withdrawal, which expires with the author’s death. 3.5 Term of Protection and Termination The copyright is protected for the whole dura - tion of the author’s life, plus 70 years after the author’s death. The copyright owner’s rights terminate after the expiration of the copyright
term or after the rights get transferred to another owner, within the copyright term. Personal non-property rights are inalienable and non-transferable and are preserved indefinitely, except for the right of withdrawal, which is effec - tive only during the author’s lifetime. 3.6 Collective Rights Management Systems ArmAuthor NGO is the only collective rights management organisation in the field of music industry, established in accordance with the Copyright Law of Armenia, in 2001. The main function of ArmAuthor NGO is collection and dis - tribution of authors’ royalties locally and interna - tionally, through sister organisations. ArmAuthor is a member of CISAC. 3.7 Copyright Registration As a member of the Bern Convention, Armenia does not require copyright registration and there is no state institution that registers copyright in Armenia. A work is considered created if it is expressed in an objective form that allows for perception and does not depend on the official certification, registration or performance of any other action. 3.8 Copyright Application Requirements
This is not applicable in Armenia. 3.9 Refusal of Registration This is not applicable in Armenia. 3.10 Related Rights
Copyrightable works, such as artworks, designs, images, motion pictures, sounds, music and short audiovisual works may be protected by trade mark, as well. Some copyrightable objects of visual arts may be protected by industrial designs. However, there is a clear distinction
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